Postconceptual Condition Osborne PeterPaperback
Postconceptual Condition Osborne PeterPaperback Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... Never has this been…
Specifikacia Postconceptual Condition Osborne PeterPaperback
Postconceptual Condition Osborne PeterPaperback
Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... Never has this been more necessary or more difficult than with respect to contemporary art. to make historical content into a philosophical truth," then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth.
Contemporary art expresses this condition, Osborne maintains, through its distinctively postconceptual form. Contemporary art is a point of condensation of a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms and technologies of image production. These essays--extending the scope and arguments of Osborne's Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art--move from philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics